Grand Theories and Everyday Beliefs

by Wallace Matson

After a Darwinian-type account of what beliefs are and how they arose in animals acting to cope with their environments--"low beliefs," virtually all of which are true--Wallace Matson here shows how the invention of language led to imagination and thence to beliefs formed in other ways ("high beliefs"), not true though thought to be, which could be consolidated into mythologies, the first Grand Unified Theories of Everything. Science began when Thales...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199812691
• ISBN13: 9780199812691
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"